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Thought after reading the ad script on a box of tuna cans: capitalist marketing is the art of sounding like you're saying something without actually saying anything.
It's key to committing to nothing, so that you won't be held liable for anything.
I knew it was inevitable, but I finally decided to part ways with some people who I've been clinging onto. They've been a bad influence and refuse to change for the better. I have treated them with my utmost patience and given them every opportunity to show even the slightest willingness to be better.
The only thing it has cemented in me is that I can't beat material conditions with ideology. I'm always open to the possibility that I am wrong, it just hasn't happened. It's like water mixing with oil, destined to separate, without an emulsifier.
Part of this has been my own faul with my lack of trust in people, fluidity can be a good quality it makes adapting to new things easier, but without a current-water can become impure and repulsive.
And maybe it's true, maybe a lot of people have become untrustworthy, maybe there are a lot of liars and schemers out there who want to take advantage of each other. It's possible that I will run into such people again, some of them are the vilest they're the ones who hide their fangs and bide their time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce on you, but courage is required to build a better world. Otherwise you'll just end up with liars and schemers on top of everything.
A while back I participated in DBT (dialectical behavior therapy). I've been wanting to tackle my anger with thinking about or talking about politics. I couldn't sleep as I was getting angry in my head over make believe scenarios lashing at liberals for all of the insane, fascistic shit they spew. Then in person, I get so blindly angry I just want to scream. The "this is not who we are" schtick from liberals boils my blood, I'm about to strangle someone. I tried all of the therapy techniques and none of them worked.
I feel that this anger is turning me into a reactionary. The only way I can throw water on it is to not participate in politics at all.
May help to see if you can channel the energy into clerical organizing work in an org; the kind of work where you don't have to talk to people a lot, especially liberals. Not everybody has to be a big talker, especially in the capacity of tolerating people who are way different politically.
First harvest from the newly-built Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm in the DPRK!! 😍 😍 😍
i wonder how that youtuber bayarea smt is doing, hope he doing well.
We need more China glazers on YT, the ultras and redlibs are too loud these days
Hello Comrades. I felt a bit down while reading Socialism Betrayed and got an idea for a painting. It's called "Andropov's Burial". I thought maybe some of you would like it.
Remember, comrades, history is on our side!
From Mexico!
Good to see this, what can you tell me about movimiento urbano popular?
Unless I am mistaken, these are movements that were originally formed to fight the gentrification within CDMX, GDL and other cities.
Sadly, due to the worldcup, evictions of vulnerable people have skyrocketed and, now that this people are fully organized in collectives, they have also joined the solidarity rallies for Palestine and Venezuela while including their usual agitation against gentrification.
Interesting, my town is practically irrelevant so there is barely any organized movement.
the stuff in my cultural anthropology class is literally just marxism but with a different name
Recently had my first proper discussion about Marxism-Leninism with a colleague. I have realised I need a well thought out plan, as my mind was full of responses but no structure to properly create a correct introductory discourse.
Any advice on how to slowly introduce someone without immediately scaring them off? Fighting against years of anti-communist and anti-china/dprk propaganda makes it harder than expected
Its amalgamation of every horrible dictatorships, ideologies(Facism, Stalinist, Monarchist and etc) , feudalism (Tyrant Kings from Bronze age to Medieval Era) and religion (Every religions from earth and turn them all into extremism)
stalinist lmao. are all 40k idiotic like this?
Anyone have suggestions on books that go into how religion is used to brainwash global south populations with pro-colonial propaganda?
It seems a lot of the people in my homeland are getting more culty on cultural issues than actually working to address material issues.
I wonder if statistics should be considered partially a social science rather than an entirely mathematical one. Obviously math is important but...I'll think about it and come back to this
Edit: mm probably not. I was just thinking about how economics is very much more a social science than what "economists" want it to be so I was trying to think of any other fields that may be like this
It's an interesting thing to think about - I would argue that you have a point, but unlike economics, which is by definition social because humans are fundamental to the economy - statistics can be focused on non-human subjects across the natural sciences. But, when statistics is applied to humans and societies e.g. through sample surveys, I would argue that in those situations it is operating as a social science.
I've not delved deeply into the definitions around this, my work is usually in programme evaluation in the development sector, but I'd be interested to look up academic writing around this question.
I'm unfortunately one of those crazy people who is genuinely enthusiastic about the philosophy of science and abstract definitions.
Cell tower disguised as a tree in a historic site in china.
Sometimes I just look at my uni's degree sheets and think about double majoring for no reason. Idk why, but it feels good imagining me getting another degree. I think I just like completing things on lists and getting recognition of task completion once I'm done.
Edit: I won't cause I need to graduate though. But I might minor in physics or stats or something
CEO of Vercel, Guillermo Rauch, is already facing community backlash for publicly supporting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, a move that’s led to boycotts and migrations off the platform among developers. All my homies hate Vercel.
Turns out CEO wants to make generous contribution towards hosting Jmail (because hosting fees are high). This generousity is because of that.
i need more confirmation for this, is this true?
https://fixupx.com/Truthtellerftm/status/1940844768612802683?s=20
not seeing anything on any Chinese news outlet
Thoughts on Incendies? I am convinced that it is hugely self-censored. Its quite clear that the setting takes place in the Lebanese civil war.
The movie obfuscates the historical setting by making up names of the cities, however it does not make up names for Canada. For an average western viewer, it could very well be any arab country, after all a place in the middle east where muslim fundamentalists fight christians sounds like any day of the week!
However there are some very obvious references and breadcrumbs to the region, a muslim refugee wears a black and white keffiyeh, a scene there is a sticker in a window that says Palestine, another scene has a half view of a flag that could be very well jordan flag or palestine flag, it is not clear which. The movie itself was filmed in Jordan, so they definitely filmed a Jordan flag but in a way that it is not clear so it makes us think it's the palestine flag. There are several more references, however i couldn't see a single reference towards Israel and i was paying very close attention.
The movie is almost 2 decades old, quite before it was plain clear to the mainstream that Israel has been waging war in the region so i imagine the director was very careful here and engaged in self-censorship, which i find disgusting because it clearly gives Israel some plausible deniability of their huge involvement in the war, ffs they leveled and occupied half the country how can you omit this.
Please could we do trigger warnings and sensor the r word in a similar way to Hexbear? Thank you.
I dont see where the R word was used in the GDT
Not in this thread, one of the post titles on the main page.
